I think this is a thread leap rather than a creep, but I'm gonna post it anyway. :-รพSeveral of you have said that in the deep South they don't bother to put grits on the menu but they are automatically put on your plate...The Tunisian equivalent of that seems to be canned tuna fish. A friend of mine was there for six weeks, and it didn't matter what he ordered (even a PLAIN cheese pizza with emphasized CHEESE ONLY), it came adorned with tuna. So, if you order something in a restaurant someday and it arrives with tuna fish plopped on top, you'll know you've strayed across borders and oceans into northern Africa.
I can't say anything about grits, as I am such a Yankee that I've never had them. No White Castles around here either...